How We Built a Serverless E-Commerce Website on AWS to Combat COVID-19

How We Built a Serverless E-Commerce Website on AWS to Combat COVID-19

  • September 25, 2020
Table of Contents

How We Built a Serverless E-Commerce Website on AWS to Combat COVID-19

Lesson learned from manufacturing a physical product to building a scalable e-commerce platform on AWS In a phone conversation in March 2020, Olalekan Elesin informed me of an idea he thought about while doing his regular grocery shopping at DM Drogrie. The idea is centered on a bracelet like your typical watch that dispenses Sanitizer. Before this time, Sanitizer comes packaged in bottles and cans of different sizes and kinds.

Some are mounted on walls, and some are portable enough to be carried around in handbags. But not portable enough to be worn on the wrist. Having spent years building scalable applications and data applications at various startups, we understood that every idea must be validated.

We have to know it’s an idea that people want and are willing to pay for. As for us, this means doing some market research.

Source: medium.com

Share :
comments powered by Disqus

Related Posts

Millions of tiny databases

Millions of tiny databases

The Physalia configuration store for chain replication of EBS is implemented as key-value stores maintained over a large number of these cells. They built a test harness, called SimWorld, which abstracts networking, performance, and other systems concepts. The goal of this approach is to allow developers to write distributed systems tests, including tests that simulate packet loss, server failures, corruption, and other failure cases, as unit tests in the same language as the system itself.

Read More
Cloudflare’s Current Expansion Is Different from the Others

Cloudflare’s Current Expansion Is Different from the Others

The company is expanding its US network in a big way, and it’s turned to two edge data center startups for help. In January, Cloudflare, which helps companies make their web services run faster and be more secure – and which more recently started to use its global data center network to also provide cloud computing services – said it would expand the network in the US with three dozen new locations. Shortly thereafter, the company said it would add even more locations in the US – about the same amount as in the first announcement.

Read More